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Microsoft hints at turning Xbox into an app for your TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an interview with The Verge, Xbox chief Phil Spencer has revealed we’ll likely see an Xbox app appear on smart TVs over the next year. Microsoft is currently working on …

Tags:Game Playing| OTT Video| Streaming Games

BenQ Materials sampling circular polarizers for foldable phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say BenQ Materials has started production of OLED OLED circular polarisers for wearable applications and is sampling polarisers for smartphones according to Digitimes who spoke to the firm’s president, Ray Liu. The …

Tags:BenQ| Polarisers

Lumens to Develop Soft LED Display with Mass Production Lock and Loaded

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Korean LED supplier, Lumens, has been developing what it calls ‘Soft LED’, a small pixel pitch display which is just 3mm thick and can be bent to a 300mm radius. It …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Samsung: “8K is the future”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television reported on the virtual 4K Summit and said that Richard Moreton, from Samsung Electronics’ R&D UK Business Development & Industrial Affairs unit confirmed Samsung’s belief in the future of …

Tags:Codecs| Samsung| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Dongxu starts constructing China’s largest OLED substrate glass factory

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There have been reports that Dongxu (Tungshu) Optoelectronics has started to construct China’s largest OLED substrate glass factory, in Tianshui City. There will be four G6 production lines and the investment …

Tags:China| Corning| Glass

Samsung Galaxy S21 screen leak says it’ll be remarkably different to the Galaxy S20

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung may move away from using curved edges to its displays in the Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone, due early next year. There is a possibility according to the report that a …

Tags:Samsung| Smartphones

DIY Smart Glasses Guide From Here to There

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Healthtechinsider reported that a hacker has developed a pair of glasses that can signal directions for wayfinding using coloured LEDs in glasses frames. He designed the frames and has released the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses

Strategy Analytics: Growing Demand For Smart Displays Drove Global Smart Speaker Sales To 2.6% Growth in Q3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics (SA) said that users are switching to display-based smart speakers, or Smart Displays. An increase from 22% to 26% in share was part of the reason for an increase …

Tags:Amazon| Market Data| Voice Input

Samsung’s free TV service is coming to more Galaxy phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung developed its TV Plus service to provide content to the brand’s smartTV systems. Now it has been rolled out to Galaxy Z Fold2, Z Flip, and original Galaxy Fold. The …

Tags:OTT Video| Samsung| Smartphones| Streaming Video

Remote Work and Learn Solutions Drive Dell Technologies’ Third Quarter Fiscal 2021 Financial Results

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Leading monitor supplier, Dell, published strong results for Q3 of its fiscal 2021 with revenues up 3% to $23.5 billion overall and with ‘client solutions’ of $12.3 billion, up 8%. Client …

Tags:Dell| Financial Data

Screen Launches Coater/Developer for Forming Process of Color Filters for Rollable and Foldable OLED Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Japanese equipment maker, Screen Finetech said that it has a new a new coater/developer, the SK-F1500H, specially designed for the film forming process of color filters with anti-reflective properties. The firm …

Tags:Colour Filters| Flexible Displays| Polarisers| Production Equipment

Sony: PS5 to gain HDMI 2.1 VRR support with future update

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has said that the PS5 will support Variable Refresh Rates (VRR) as set out in HDMI 2.1 in the future with a firmware upgrade. At launch, it supports 4K120 performance, …

Tags:PlayStation| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)